Phishing Scams Targeting the UMN

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Phishing example 42: Update

Notes: This is a particularly nasty phishing scam because it is spoofed to come from help@umn.edu, and the link (which is now blocked) was a perfect copy of the University's login page.

From: Helpdesk Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:00 PMSubject: Update

Dear UserDue to high numbers of inactive mail accounts on our server, all emailusers are urged to update their email account within 24 hours of receiving this email, byusing the Update*Click here hxxp://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/idp/umn/login.php *to confirmthat their email account is active.Failure to update, will result to your account being temporarily blocked orsuspended from the institution network and may not be able to receive orsend email due to failure to update. Do not ignore this message to avoid terminationof your webmail account.Thanks for your co-operation.Yours sincerely,Call: 612-301-4357 (1-HELP)Email: help@umn.edu